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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dip in liquid |
| Synonyms: | douse, duck, immerse, saturate, soak, sop, souse, submerge, submerse |
| Main Entry: | dip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put into liquid |
| Synonyms: | baptize, bathe, douse, drench, duck, dunk, immerse, irrigate, lave, lower, moisten, pitch, plunge, rinse, slop, slosh, soak, souse, splash, steep, submerge, submerse, wash, water, wet |
| Main Entry: | douse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, extinguish with liquid |
| Synonyms: | blow out, deluge, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, plunge, put out, quench, saturate, slop, slosh, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splash, splatter, squench, steep, submerge, submerse, wet |
| Notes: | douse first meant 'knock, punch, strike' and now means 'to extinguish or wet thoroughly; dowse means to look for water or minerals with a divining rod |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | drench |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wet thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerse, impregnate, inundate, pour, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, steep, submerge, teem |
| Antonyms: | dry, parch |
| Main Entry: | immerse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid |
| Synonyms: | asperse, baptize, bathe, bury, christen, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, merge, plunge, saturate, sink, slop, soak, souse, sprinkle, steep, submerse |
| Notes: | immerse means to thrust into or engross fully; submerge means sink below the surface or put under water |
| Antonyms: | dry, retrieve |
| Main Entry: | inundate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drown, overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dunk, engulf, flood, glut, immerse, overflow, overrun, pour down on, snow*, submerge, swamp, whelm |
| Antonyms: | underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plunge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quick drop; enthusiastic attempt |
| Synonyms: | belly flop, descent, dive, duck, dunk, fall, high dive, immersion, investment, jump, nose-dive, spree, submergence, submersion, swoop, venture |
| Antonyms: | ascent, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | soak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, wet |
| Synonyms: | absorb, assimilate, bathe, damp, dip, drink, drown, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerge, immerse, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, macerate, marinate, merge, moisten, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pour into, pour on, saturate, seethe, soften, sop, souse, steep, submerge, take in, wash, water, waterlog |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | souse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very wet |
| Synonyms: | brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate, marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, soak, sop, steep, submerge, submerse, waterlog, wet |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
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